02 April 2006

Shoes

I guess Dave Gorman has a pretty decent digital camera.I guess also that means that a great deal of definition is lost in the transfer to flickr.

This is a shame but also a telling point - particularly in view of the story behind this (half) picture.The original, here, contains much more information, and Dave mentions that a certain onlooker prevented him from getting a better shot, which means for certain that he never thought to take this one home and digitally modify it.

I'm impressed. I mean, I was already impressed with his work, he has a lovely, quirky, appreciative eye on the world and ought to be displaying these professionally, in a gallery, on 5 foot tall canvasses or in matte glass frames just as large, but the thought that each and every one of his works is probably the entire original shot with very little skimming, strimming or repositioning, well that adds a real wow factor.

He runs a little online gallery that I admit I sneak off to when the world is a bit on the grey side - half an hour in there brings the colour back.

Wonderful.

P.S. Mr Gorman will not mind me hacking and reproducing this shot - I don't think. A certain inebriated defender of the young, however, may feel I owe a particular kid a couple of notes, for plagiarism.

5 comments:

I had a look. I liked his documentary about finding all the other Dave Gormans in the world, especially the bit where he had to explain to some Israeli border guards his reason for entering Israel. Hilarious. There's no easy way to explain to a border guard that you are there to meet someone you have never met who happens to have the same name as you. I liked the photos. What is flickr, is it all about photos?